March 10, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 46 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

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  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, before I get into the remarks, 
substance, of coronavirus and H.R. 1, I would like to mention that 
Leader McConnell did not give the right story when he talked about the 
Energy bill. I would remind people, 13 Democrats voted for cloture; 15 
Republicans opposed cloture. I would remind the leader that it was a 
Republican, Senator Kennedy, who led the charge to deny cloture, and it 
was well known that Democrats simply wanted an amendment on the Kennedy 
bill--a Republican amendment--wanted an ability to vote. Once again, 
because Leader McConnell does not allow amendments and debate and, 
instead, just adds more items to his legislative graveyard, the bill 
went down. But 13 Democrats voted for cloture. If he had his Republican 
troops together, he might have been able to pass it anyway. To blame 
Democrats and say we are moving the goalpost is just a total 
misstatement of what happened.

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